Issue #462
Featured: “Best practice” is just your opinion
“I’m going to be honest, when doing accessibility audits, the term “best practice” bothers me. Like most things, the term started off with good intentions. A way to suggest fixes for things which are definitely accessibility barriers, but don’t technically fail the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), or whatever standard you’re auditing against.”
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News, resources, tools and tutorials
- About “best practices” (blog post - yatil.net)
- A11y 101: 2.4.1 Bypass blocks (blog post - tarnoff.info)
- Testing Methods: Contrast (minimum) (blog post - dennisdeacon.com)
- Four stages of accessibility maturity (blog post - chrisyoong.com)
- To tell my disabled stories, I needed to unlearn ableist workshop critiques (blog post - electricliterature.com)
- The best line length (blog post – blog.glyph.im)
- A11M - Part I on a11y and LLMs (blog post – nira11y.com)
- How much should you spend on accessibility? (blog post – karlgroves.com)
- AI effluential (blog post – html5accessibility.com)
- Focus not obscured (blog post - a11y-blog.dev)
- Developing an alt text button for images on my website (blog post - jamesg.blog)
- Universal design vs inclusive design (blog post - tpgi.com)
- Accessible recruitment (blog post - tetralogical.com)
- Yellow, purple, and the myth of “accessibility limits color palettes” (blog post - stephaniewalter.design)
- Take the Attitudes to Digital Accessibility 2025 survey (survey - abilitynet.org.uk)
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